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Lee County
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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Lee County

Index to Locations Unknown location Cape CoralCoral Ridge Cemetery Fort MyersFort Myers MemorialGardens Fort MyersOld Fort Myers Cemetery UnknownLocation Lee County, Florida Stafford Canning Cleveland (1822-1885) — also known asStafford C. Cleveland — of Penn Yan,YatesCounty, N.Y.; Fort Myers,LeeCounty, Fla.Born in Hector, Tompkins County (nowSchuylerCounty), N.Y.,September21, 1822.Republican.Newspapereditor;villagepresident of Penn Yan, New York, 1865-66; candidate forNew Yorkstate senate 26th District, 1871; postmaster atPennYan, N.Y., 1879-82; member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from Yates County, 1883.Died, fromBright'sdisease, in Fort Myers,LeeCounty, Fla.,December3, 1885 (age63 years, 73days).Interment somewhere; cenotaph atWestLodi Cemetery, Lodi, N.Y. Politicians buriedhere:   Relatives: Sonof E. R. Cleveland and Mary Mead 'Polly' (Hanley) Cleveland; married,August19, 1847, to Obedience Fraser; first cousin twice removed ofGroverFredrick Cleveland; second cousin twice removed ofEphraimSafford; third cousin once removed ofChaunceyFitch Cleveland andJamesSafford; third cousin twice removed ofIsaiahKidder andJarvisKing Pike; third cousin thrice removed ofJonathanHunt,LymanKidder,EzraKidder andDavidKidder; fourth cousin ofWilliamDean Kellogg andRobertCrawford Safford; fourth cousin once removed ofJonathanUsher,JedediahSabin,CalebBlodgett,CharlesStetson,LutherKidder,IsaiahStetson andAlansonPike.   Political family:FourThousand Related Politicians..   See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial   Image source: Penn Yan (N.Y.)Chronicle-Express, December 15, 1885

Charles Milton Blackburn (1912-1982) — also known asCharles Blackburn — of Versailles,WoodfordCounty, Ky.Born inWoodfordCounty, Ky.,May 31,1912.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;chair ofWoodford County Democratic Party, 1952-55; delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from Kentucky,1956.Methodist.Member,SigmaChi;Kiwanis;AmericanLegion.Died inLeeCounty, Fla.,August19, 1982 (age70 years, 80days).Interment at Coral Ridge Cemetery.

	Relatives: SonofSmithAlford Blackburn andLauraBrowning Blackburn; married1933 to MarthaHardesty; great-grandnephew ofLukePryor Blackburn andJosephClay Stiles Blackburn; first cousin five times removed ofGabrielSlaughter; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesRice Slaughter.
		Political family:Blackburnfamily of Versailles, Kentucky (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

Lawrence E. Imhoff (1895-1988) — of St. Clairsville,BelmontCounty, Ohio.Born in Round Bottom,MonroeCounty, Ohio,December28, 1895.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I;lawyer;probate judge in Ohio, 1925-33;U.S.Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1933-39, 1941-43; servedin the U.S. Navy during World War II.Presbyterian.Member,Freemasons;Knightsof Pythias;Eagles;Elks.Died in North Fort Myers,LeeCounty, Fla.,April18, 1988 (age92 years, 112days).Entombed in mausoleum at Fort Myers Memorial Gardens.

	Relatives: Sonof Eugene A. Imhoff and Laura (Clegg) Imhoff; married,September1, 1923, to Martha Elizabeth Korn.
		See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Find-A-Gravememorial

R. A. Henderson Jr. — of Fort Myers,LeeCounty, Fla.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida,1940.Interment at Old Fort Myers Cemetery.

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